Try this simple experiment. With notepad in hand, go out into your plant and walk around a sampling of your most critical machines. These are the ones that have high probability of failure and/or the greatest consequences of failure. They are also known as show-stoppers and, as such, generally merit a disproportionate allocation of reliability and maintenance resources.

Next, on your notepad make a list of all the lubrication-related enhancements that have been implemented on these same machines since they were commissioned. Take special note of those that have been applied in the past five years. Solicit any amount of help (from old-timers, for instance) you need to flesh out your list.

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We’ve addressed the virtues of training numerous times on the pages of Machinery Lubrication and other Noria publications. Still today, we encounter a national workforce in the lubrication field that seems largely oblivious to many of the fundamental concepts that embody excellence in the profession.

We are not sure if it is due to them not knowing what they don’t know, or not caring about what they don’t know. To become aware of what you don’t know requires becoming aware of your incompetencies and leaving the comfort of ignorance.

This editorial column seeks to define a minimum threshold of knowledge and awareness to qualify a person to work in the field rather than addressing the broader topics of educating a lubrication workforce.

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